Ex-Melaka PWD director jailed 22 years, fined RM36mil for money laundering


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 05 Jul 2018

MELAKA: Former Melaka Public Works Department director Datuk Khalid Omar was sentenced to 22 years in jail and fined RM36mil for various counts of offences relating to money laundering and corruption involving over RM5.4mil.

Sessions Court judge Mohd Nasir Nordin ordered the sentence to run concurrently from date of sentencing and granted a seven-day stay of execution for the defendant to file an appeal to the High Court.

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